Migraine Science Collaborative

Chia-Chun Chiang, MD, is an assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Her clinical and research interests center on the application of AI to the study of migraine and vascular neurology, as well as exploring the connections between headaches and various cerebrovascular/cardiovascular disorders. Dr. Chiang recently received the 2024 American Headache Society (AHS) Harold G. Wolff Award, and the 2024 American Academy of Neurology Harold Wolff-John Graham Award. For this Migraine Science Collaborative podcast, Dr. Chiang spoke with freelance writer Fred Schwaller shortly after the 66th Annual Scientific Meeting of the AHS, which took place in June 2024 in San Diego. She discusses her interest in using AI to address important questions in the migraine field, her research in this area – including findings presented at the AHS meeting – and much more.

Editor's note: Dr. Anne Luebke, PhD, is a researcher and a jointly appointed associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Her lab focuses on auditory and vestibular efferent systems. One of Dr. Luebke's interests is vestibular migraine, which is the focus of this MSC podcast. Here, Dr. Luebke spoke with Heba Hani, RPh/MBA, a pharmacist who specializes in migraine, at the 2023 International Headache Congress in Seoul, South Korea, to discuss her work using preclinical models to investigate vestibular migraine.

Dawn Buse, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping people live well with chronic diseases including migraine, other headache diseases, and chronic pain. She is a clinical professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and an assistant professor in the clinical health psychology doctoral program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She also conducts research on migraine, pain and stress, among other conditions. In this MSC podcast, Dr. Buse speaks with freelance science writer Fred Schwaller, PhD, to discuss how she began her career as a migraine researcher and clinical psychologist, the use of behavioral therapies for migraine, and some of her most important epidemiological research findings.

In a recent study published in Cephalalgia on September 7, 2022, an international group of researchers reported results from a global online survey on perceived barriers to career progression in the headache field. The survey focused on career obstacles in four domains: professional recognition, opportunities in scientific societies, clinical practice, and salary and compensation. Nearly 600 professionals in the global headache field responded to the survey, with gender emerging as the most important barrier in nearly all of the four domains. Country of birth also surfaced as a key barrier. In this MSC podcast, Irene de Boer, first author of the study, along with senior author Gisela Terwindt, sit down with Lincoln Tracy, a research fellow and freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia, to delve deep into the findings from their new work.

Dr. Gregory Dussor is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas. His work focuses on understanding how the sensory innervation of the meninges contributes to headache disorders. Using several preclinical models, his group has identified numerous targets within this afferent nociceptive system including several that may contribute to sex differences observed in migraine. In this Migraine Science Collaborative podcast, Dussor speaks with MSC Executive Editor Neil Andrews to discuss his path to studying migraine, his research contributions so far – especially his work to develop better animal models of migraine – what's going well in the migraine field and what needs to get better – and even his love of coffee and the band Phish.